The Fallen Citadel pt 5

FC5

Deep into the enemies ranks we encountered our fiercest opponents, Julianus wasn’t going to make it easy to reach him. Me and Harold faced off against one of Julianus’s most trusted generals, General Xarius, the crusher. He was a massive ogre, and much stronger than anyone I've ever fought. I could barely do enough to dodge the swings of his powerful hammer. Harold managed to hold his ground much easier with his two-handed axe, exchanging blow for blow with Xarius.

I took advantage of these moments to hit vital organs. I let go my Viper, and its swift attack caught Xarius off-guard rupturing his spleen. Next, I went for his eyes, like a raven I plucked out his eyes when he was in a deadlock with Harold. He began swinging blindly screaming “They took my eyes; they took my eyes”. “I will crush you puny humans for that” and Harold laughed saying “You have to catch us first you dumb brute”. Harold raised his axe and in one slice cut through Xarius’s arm, it fell to the ground with a loud thump.

Now weaponless, and blind Harold went for the kill. Beheading Xarius in a swift swing. His minions skittering away in horror having watched him die. Freya and Borgan were having troubles of their own against the mages.

Both of them were running for their lives as fire and frost bolts were being fired off at them. Borgan screaming “why did I have to team up with the big woman, Shes a HUGE target”. Freya responding “I'm about to pick you up and throw you at them if you don’t shut your mouth goblin”. Borgans dumbass comment was “I'd love to see that happen”, and he got what he wished for.

Freya threw Borgan right at the mages and after he rebalanced himself, he laughed and said “damn she really just did that huh”. Staring right at him were 4 mages confused as to why a goblin had just hit them, and Borgan took advantage of this to slit their throats. Freya reached the other pack of mages with her incredible speed she slammed into them knocking them into the ground. Followed by cutting off their heads and finally grabbing her bow to kill the rest of them.

She fired off 5 arrows each one hitting the mages with such force it knocked them back and killed them. Meanwhile Borgan was having a grand ole time running through the enemy forces and finding places to put his daggers. Their mouths, their eyes, their throat, their backs, it didn’t matter as long as he got to kill.

Elindresh stayed behind to protect the elven queen and help command her forces. He called to the spirits of the earth, summoning treants to his side to fight the demons. Treants hated demon beasts, most elemental spirits did and so Elindresh continued to conjure them. He ran into a powerful warlock, another one of Julianus's generals.

General Gorthic, the deceiver, and he summoned powerful demons to his side. With the treants leading the charge ramming into the demons, Evandria and Elindresh went after Gorthic. He was a crafty bastard, casting spells of fear into their minds. He put them into a trance, and they were reliving their childhoods. They were reliving the slaughter of their people, and they could do nothing but watch. Gorthic let out a low cackle and said “Now I can finally put an end to you filthy elves”. Little did Gorthic know, Jonah and Minerva were coming for him.

With Elindresh and Evandria still paralyzed by fear, my lieutenants rushed to their aid to break the spell. “Wake up Elindresh, it's not real” Jonah screamed, and then he slapped Elindresh across the face. It was enough to snap him out of the nightmare, and Minerva did the same for Evandria. Theirs eyes were reignited with fire, and they were not going to lose to this warlock. Elindresh cast a freezing spell at Gorthic, while Jonah and Minvera fought back the demons. He gave Evandria the opening she needed and she pierced Gorthic’s skull with her spear.

We managed to regroup in the middle of the chaos and tried to come up with a plan to kill Julianus. Our army was pushing out of the city and onto the countryside, and we were starting to rally once again. We needed to find an opening to take down Julianus and Evandria said her elves would give us the space we needed. We broke off from there, and I watched those brave elves charge into Julianus’s personal guards. They knew they were no match for them but they went willingly, because they believed in us, they believed in the mission.

We had given them a chance to reclaim their lives, and take revenge. We fought through the openings to reach that bastard Julianus. When we finally approached him, he let out a menacing laugh. “You dare to think lowly scum like you could stop me” “Look what I did to your King, and your people, I watched them burn to the ground, and now you'll die just like them” I could do nothing but smile, because standing before me was finally a worthy opponent and my revenge would be all the sweeter.